A Cat Named Pickles 🐈

 

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From: Arianne Blackburn <arianne.blackburn@missionary.org>
Date: Mon, May 31, 2021 at 5:07 PM
Subject: A Cat Named Pickles 
To: Summer Blackburn <sblackburn3123@gmail.com>

Holaaaa mis amigos!!!!

Another good week here in SP4 and while it hasn't been a wild week it's been a busy one.

We had interviews with President and Sister Rasmussen on Thursday and as always that was so very fun. And then our mission is big into mission raps and creating our own music so the zone leaders had dropped some fire music into the chat a few days ago and we got a live performance!!!! The closest thing I've had to a concert in a long time and it was absolutely incredible!

We had exchanges and they were overnight this time! Which is something new for me, but that meant that I had to drive!!!! First time driving on my mission so that was soooooooo strange. But I was with one of my stls, Hermana Platt and that was a party! She's way cool and I got to tour her around my tiny area and have wild adventures in all the apartments.

Also, we moved Armando's baptismal date to the 12th so everyone just keep praying for him that he feels ready for this. And also, we put our friend Manuel on date for the 13th this week! So that's so cool and we are so very excited for both of them so just lots of prayers would be appreciated.

We have been trying to hard to find people this week and I have met so many cats and found some people because of cats which is strange but all good. We knocked on this one door and four cats came out the door and one ran down the stairs and started rolling in the grass. So this lady runs down and grabs it while this other lady is yelling from inside, "did you get pickles?" and I was like, wait what? There's no pickles here! And I had a moment of like strange panic and them this lady holds this orange tabby cat at arms length and goes "this is pickles. We're doing fine though, have a good day." and she takes pickles inside, the other 3 cats follow her in and she shuts the door. That was wild. 

Miracles really do happen here in the WKM and I know it's because Heavenly Father is trusting us to work hard to go out and find His children and bring them home. And I am so grateful for those moments when He trusts me enough to choose to work hard and follow Him, and that's pretty cool. 

Pero espero que su semana vaya bien!!

Con todo mi corazón, 

Hermana Blackburn